{"podcast":{"title":"Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast","slug":"foul-play-a-historical-true-crime-podcast-51278","podcast_index_feed_id":51278,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/4cf5f57c-0bea-454e-8dc3-f263c362d278","website_url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/foulplay","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2026/2/16/21/cbfd1140-ea5b-4393-97e9-8f2f9ac2f953_00-main-artwork-original.jpg","author":"Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins","episode_count":322,"summary":"Foggy gaslit streets. A quiet courtroom. And crimes that history tried to bury. Foul Play is a historical true crime podcast that investigates the most chilling murder cases from the 1800s and early 1900s across the United States and the United Kingdom. Hosted by investigative crime journalists Shane Waters — who pioneered crime podcasting in 2008 — and Wendy Cee, each season unravels one complete criminal case through original research, court records, and primary source material. This isn't sensationalized true crime. Every season of Foul Play puts victims first — their names, their stories, their humanity — before examining how murder investigations unfolded in an era before modern forensics, when justice was far from guaranteed. From Victorian poisoners in London to Gilded Age killers in America, Foul Play brings historical true crime to life with cinematic storytelling and relentless accuracy. Every fact is verified. Every claim is sourced. Every story is told with the gravity it deserves. New seasons of this historical true crime podcast release throughout the year, with episodes dropping weekly on Tuesdays. Hello, friend. Welcome to Foul Play.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-22T10:21:59.872041+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/foul-play-a-historical-true-crime-podcast-51278"},"episode":{"title":"Wyoming and New York: Children in the Dock, 1892","slug":"wyoming-and-new-york-children-in-the-dock-1892","published_at":"2026-09-08T09:00:06+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/foul-play-a-historical-true-crime-podcast-51278/wyoming-and-new-york-children-in-the-dock-1892","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/foul-play-a-historical-true-crime-podcast-51278","url":"http://mythsandmalice.com","audio_url":"https://audio3.redcircle.com/episodes/560f12d2-3d83-4242-b9e2-e2a875501187/stream.mp3","summary":"Season 40: America's 250th Anniversary — fifty true crime stories from fifty states. Wyoming, 1892. A fiftee- n-year-old orphan train rider murders two young men in a boxcar and becomes the first person executed by the state. New York, 1906. A seventeen-year-old immigrant kills the uncle who abused her and walks free from a packed Manhattan courtroom. Two teenagers. Two states. Two verdicts that split the question of whether a child's history belongs to them or to the law. In this historical true crime double feature, Foul Play examines the execution of Charles \"Kansas Charley\" Miller and the acquittal of Josephine Terranova — two cases that reveal how gender, geography, and political timing determined which children America chose to protect and which it chose to destroy. The Victims Waldo Emerson and Ross Fishbaugh** were eighteen and twenty years old, from St. Joseph, Missouri. They were not vagrants. They had outfitted themselves for a tramping adventure on the Union Pacific line with new clothes, spending money, and arms. On the night of September 27, 1890, they were shot in the head while they slept in a boxcar somewhere between Pine Bluff and Hillsdale, Wyoming, by a fifteen-year-old boy they had been traveling with. Fishbaugh was found alive but died without recovering. **Gaetano and Concetta Riggio** were killed in their home at 110 East 220th Street in the Bronx by their niece and goddaughter, Josephine Terranova, in 1906. Gaetano had been Josephine's legal guardian and godfather since her arrival from Sicily. Trial testimony established that he had subjected her to years of forced labor and sustained sexual abuse behind closed doors. The Crimes Charles Miller — known as Kansas Charley — was born in a Manhattan tenement in 1874. Orphaned by age six, he was pla…","meta_description":"Season 40: America's 250th Anniversary — fifty true crime stories from fifty states. Wyoming, 1892. 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